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A Republican Indiana state senator is taking advantage of his governor’s decision to withdraw from the Common Core to file a bill that would allow individual teachers to discuss “competing theories” in the classroom without worrying about blowback from the state or school...

After suffering a disappointing year at the ballot box, the Club for Growth on Thursday announced Chris Chocola is retiring at year’s end and will be replaced by fellow former Indiana GOP Rep. David McIntosh.

Delegates at the Indiana Republican Party Convention in Fort Wayne over the weekend overwhelmingly approved a party platform opposing gay marriage – a mere two years after the state GOP chose to (temporarily) remove the anti-gay language in an attempt...

Well that didn’t last long… Just two years after Indiana Republicans chose to dial back opposition to same-sex marriage in the party’s platform, state GOP delegates are already considering a reinsertion of the anti-gay plank. Lafayette Journal & Courier reports:...

Indiana State Senator and Tea Party member Mike Delph was disappointed by the failed measure to get a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and civil unions on his state’s 2014 ballot. The contentious amendment, known as HJR-3, died in February...

Via the Associated Press: Indiana would break from an Internal Revenue Service policy recognizing same-sex marriage for tax purposes if a late-session change becomes law. The Senate on Monday approved adding the language to another tax bill. Show More Summary

Indiana GOP House Rep. Eric Turner, whose marriage ban failed last week, now wants to make it legal for state contractors to discriminate against LGBT employees. His bill Via the Indianapolis Star: Some state contractors would be allowed...Show More Summary

GOP Indiana state Sen. Mike Delph held a press conference today to announce that he will today try to resurrect the old wording during today's final vote on a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. And if that doesn't happen, he will vote against the new wording in protest. Show More Summary

Via the Indianapolis Star: In a highly unusual move, Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma today moved a controversial same-sex marriage ban to a new committee after the measure stalled in a previous committee. Bosma said the proposed amendment...Show More Summary

Indiana already has a law banning marriage, complete with criminal penalties for pastors who perform same-sex rites, but that's not good enough for state Republicans. Prodded by right-wing religious groups such as the good ChristianShow More Summary

While open to possibly taking out language that also bans civil unions, Republicans in the Indiana legislature are vowing to further connect their party to the wrong side of the marriage issue: Despite calls from Democrat legislative leaders to shelve...

Last month, Indiana Republicans proposed a measure intended to shut down a Planned Parenthood clinic in the state. The original SB 371 legislation also contained a clause that would have required women taking the RU-486 abortion pill to undergo two invasive transvaginal probes — one before taking the pill, and one after. But ever since [...]

The Indiana senate advanced a measure on Tuesday to require all women to undergo an unnecessary, and potentially invasive, ultrasound procedure before taking the RU-486 abortion pill. The original version of the bill actually mandated two tranvaginal ultrasounds — before and after women took the pill. Yesterday, before the Senate vote, GOP lawmakers agreed to [...]

Indiana lawmakers sparked controversy last week when they proposed a forced ultrasound bill that would go even further than similar measures in states across the country: it would require women to undergo two potentially invasive ultrasounds, both before and after taking the RU-486 abortion pill. State lawmakers are now walking that back, conceding that the [...]